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IE 4 and 5 were pretty good. ActiveDesktop was pretty cool. XMLHttpRequest turned out to be revolutionary. It was only after triple whammy of Netscape being un
by wongarsu 3y ago
IE 4 and 5 were pretty good. ActiveDesktop was pretty cool. XMLHttpRequest turned out to be revolutionary.
It was only after triple whammy of Netscape being unable to further compete, the dotcom crash and the antitrust suit against Microsoft's integration between Windows and IE that IE got deprioritized by MS and slowly turned into the underfeatured mess every developer hated.
- dylan604 3y agoIE for Mac was atrocious. Woz has some interesting thoughts about it in his book iWoz.
- kalleboo 3y agoAlthough Netscape was even worse (if you resized the window, it reloaded the whole page), and IE for Mac at the time had the best CSS support out of any browser (it was a different renderer from IE Win). I did a lot of bouncing between browsers (Netscape/IE/iCab/Opera) back then until Mozilla came out and wiped everything else out.
- darkwater 3y agoThis take is pretty revisionist. IE4 wasn't good, ActiveDesktop and ActiveX were either useless or actually bad. AJAX was probably the only good thing out of IE, and I would not dare to call it an happy accident but I'm tempted